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Afghanistan
Four killed in attack on Afghan security forces in Kabul
2018-12-12
[DAWN] At least four people were killed and another six injured after a jacket wallah targeted a convoy of security forces in Kabul early on Tuesday, officials said, in the latest bloody Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
-claimed attack in the Afghan capital.

The blast took place in Paghman district in western Kabul as the convoy was returning from an overnight operation, interior ministry front man Najib Danish told AFP.

"It is still not clear whether the attacker was on foot or driving a vehicle," the front man added.

Another security official requesting anonymity said the assailant had used a boom-mobile to target the convoy.

Attacks on Afghan forces by the Taliban and the Death Eater Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group have been inflicting record-high casualties on security personnel this year.

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